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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:34:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160819133422.GI10121@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160818162522.GB5049@nazgul.tnic>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 06:25:22PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> > > I could try to find better/more fitting event selectors on AMD...
> >  
> > If you've got any other suggestions, I'm all ears.
> 
> So there are no LLC events on AMD in the sense that there are no
> event selectors which always mean last-level cache and select those
> automagically, no matter whether the LLC is the L2, L3 and so on,
> depending on the part.
> 
> If we have to be correct on AMD, we'd have to check whether the part has
> an L3 and then choose the L3 events, say, something like
> 
> "EventSelect 4E1h L3 Cache Misses" and "EventSelect 4E2h L3 Fills caused
> by L2 Evictions"

Can't those events are NB events and cannot be used on per CPU counters.

The 7D,7E L2 events are the best that are available on AMD afaict.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-19 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-11 15:21 [PATCH] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2 Matt Fleming
2016-08-11 16:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-15 15:13   ` Matt Fleming
2016-08-18 16:25     ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-19 13:34       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-08-19 14:44         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-19 15:16           ` Peter Zijlstra

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